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Sidney V. Stratton
Sidney Vanuxem Stratton (August 8, 1845Edward Carpenter, and Louis Henry Carpenter, ''Samuel Carpenter and His Descendants'' (1912:71). – June 17, 1921) was an American architect born in Natchez, Mississippi, but whose practice was entirely in New York City. Stratton is now scarcely known, but he was one of the first American architecture students at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, along with H. H. Richardson and Richard Morris Hunt, in whose office he worked in the 1870s before establishing his own practice. In his picturesque structure for the New York House and School at 120 West 16th Street (1878), a charitable institution teaching sewing skills to poor women, he introduced the Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Queen Anne style to the United States. This building was designated a List of New York City Landmarks, New York City landmark in 1990. At the Seventh Regiment Armory, Stratton's Queen Anne-style room for the affluent and socially prominent Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
120 West 16th Street From West
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit (measurement), unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest Positive number, positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the sequence (mathematics), infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
